...Alan Rai; Tim Nelson Purpose This paper aims to provide investors’ views on financing costs and barriers to entry into the electricity generation sector, with a focus on investors’ views on potential impacts on cost of capital from adopting nodal pricing and financial transmission rights (FTRs...

... ; Gouy, 2011 ; Hameiri, 2014 ; Nanau, 2014). Our specific interest is Solomon Islands’ electricity prices, which are among the highest in the world (IRENA, 2013 ; URA, 2013). Current residential tariffs in Australia are approximately 26 c/kWh, whereas prices in the Solomon Islands are nearly four...